Eesha Ulhaq

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on the atlas — 12

highlights — 6

Naïvely, if I had to break down research into smaller components, it might look something like roughly equal parts of: reading (understanding the state of the art) writing (contributing to the state of the art) thinking (originating new ideas) experimenting (gathering evidence for your findings, and building the systems to interpret them effectively) collaborating (exchanging findings with people who care) teaching (distilling the field’s fundamentals so students / future contributors can understand your work)
Ben's Research Syllabus
As I’ve noted occasionally before, one of the most potentially useful things that academics do is preparing syllabi, and hence organizing information about the world.
Ben's Research Syllabus
sometimes relish in people’s blatant motivations, because it makes decisions easy for me in terms of who to invest in and how to spend my time.
San Francisco, I love you?
Canada has 10 per cent of the world’s top-tier AI researchers, the second most in the world.
Securing Canada’s AI advantage | Prime Minister of Canada
The collection of data had no particular rhyme or reason — i.e., it didn’t target specific users who might be a national security threat. It was just… everything
Looking back at the Snowden revelations – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
(g) Make sure that our "goal" is really our goal, that we coherently want it and are not constrained by fears or by uncertainty as to whether it is worth the effort, and that we have thought through any questions and decisions in advance so they won't continually sap our energies;
Humans are not automatically strategic — LessWrong